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CORR
2010
Springer
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15 years 3 months ago
Soft Control on Collective Behavior of a Group of Autonomous Agents by a Shill Agent
This paper asks a new question: how can we control the collective behavior of self-organized multi-agent systems? We try to answer the question by proposing a new notion called `So...
Jing Han, Ming Li, Lei Guo
PPOPP
2003
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Optimizing data aggregation for cluster-based internet services
Large-scale cluster-based Internet services often host partitioned datasets to provide incremental scalability. The aggregation of results produced from multiple partitions is a f...
Lingkun Chu, Hong Tang, Tao Yang, Kai Shen
ICDCN
2010
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
An Intelligent IT Infrastructure for the Future
The proliferation of new modes of communication and collaboration has resulted in an explosion of digital information. To turn this challenge into an opportunity, the IT industry ...
Prith Banerjee
ATAL
2004
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
Multiagent Planning as Control Synthesis
This paper proposes a new multiagent planning approach to coordination synthesis that views distributed agents as discrete-event processes. The connection between discreteevent co...
Kiam Tian Seow, Chuan Ma, Makoto Yokoo
MIDDLEWARE
2004
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
Adaptive resource discovery for ubiquitous computing
The terms pervasive and ubiquitous computing are used to describe a smart space populated by hundreds of intelligent devices that are embedded in their surroundings. Characteristi...
Rae Harbird, Stephen Hailes, Cecilia Mascolo